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Re:AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too by acuozzo on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @11:23AM (#49523201)
> For a lot of people, "fixing" means adding code to make it work.

What if the fix requires deleting a single line of code?

Is the additive fix to enshroud it in if (0) { } ?

Re:AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too by kqr on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @12:47PM (#49524513)
Usually something more subtle like adding an early return somewhere before the offending line, or inheriting from that class and blanking that method, or something along those lines.
Re:AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too by Izkata on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @04:58PM (#49528107)
What I saw in these cases, the result was a few levels removed from the root cause and they'd add the same workaround to like 5 different places (and miss one or two) instead of tracking it back to the origin where the fix was that simple.